Monday 2 April 1928

It was Monday, under the sign of Aries. The US president was Calvin Coolidge (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Joseph "Cardinal" and Rita Gam.
Street Angel, directed by Frank Borzage, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1928
But much more happened that day: find out below..

Wolfgang Arming: Austrian business executive and entrepreneur who is the head of Polydor and Polygram records.

Joseph Bernardin: American Roman Catholic Cardinal whose style was pastoral, not imperial. Conventional and soft spoken, he spent most of his life as a priest and a bishop behind a desk, yet became known as one of the moral giants of his day, the leader of Chicago's 2.3 million Catholics. A master mediator, he helped steer the U.S. church toward an anti-nuclear stance, and in 1987 struck a delicate balance as chief drafter of a document in which U.S. bishops agreed to educational programs on how to use condoms to

Serge Gainsbourg: French singer, an international sex symbol who gained fame in England with his hit record "Je T'Aime," performed with Jane Birkin. He made a successful career as a record producer and was also an actor and painter. Beloved in France and abroad, he had an amorous reputation with women.

Famous Deaths:

Theodore Richards: The first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements.

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Books

Philo Vance takes a hand when, in an evening, one daughter of the Greene family is shot to death and another one is wounded. The family comprises two sons and three daughters (the youngest, Ada, is adopted) under the rule ...